USING INDIFFERENCE POINTS IN ENGINEERING DECISIONS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2000, Pages 161-171

  Scott, Michael J ^a   Antonsson, Erik K ^b  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregation functions; design decision making; engineering design; multicriteria analysis; strategies; trade offs

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; DESIGN DECISION-MAKING; ENGINEERING DECISIONS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; PARETO OPTIMA; STRATEGY; TRADE OFF;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 85148540701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/DTM-14559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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